Community Service: Lions Club Minstrel Show

Tuesday

Mar 1, 2011 at 12:01 AMMar 1, 2011 at 1:22 AM

Kathryn Ross

WHAT: Singing songs from the day the music died and the golden age of rock and roll, more than 50 members of the Wellsville Lions Club have been rehearsing since Jan, 5 for the 66th annual Lions Club Minstrel Show scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Wellsville High School auditorium. Minstrel Show tickets are on sale at Fred Roberts Auto Parts, Brand Name Appliance, Cook’s Tire, Community Bank, Elks Lodge, I.D. Booth, Richardson and Stout Insurance, Wellsville Chamber of Commerce and from any Lions Club member.

ON STAGE: Sitting under the tail section of a plane modeled by Lion Larry Muscato after the four-seater Beech Bonanza which crashed on Feb. 3, 1959 killing singers, the Big Bopper (Jiles Perry "J. P." Richardson, Jr.) Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the pilot, are members of both the Lions and Lioness clubs.

SINGING: “If its a song in this show it is from a dead singer,” said director Bill Childs as special act, Alex Cole sang, “Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear, and it shows them pearly white, part of a medley of Songs sung made well-known by Bobby Darrin.

I’M A BELIEVER: “This is our biggest fundraiser for the Lions Club’s charities that benefit this community, when I suggested this show I thought it was okay, but I wasn’t gung ho, but everyone’s picked up on it and made me a believer. I think it’ll be a sell-out,” said Childs.

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